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Townsend Bell and Bill Sweedler won the GTE Am class last year, and finished third in 2015 Photo by LAT Photographic

How IMSA drivers fared in the 24 Hours of Le Mans

Cooper MacNeil joins Townsend Bell and Bill Sweedler on GTE Am podium

June 18, 2017

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Aside from the heartbreak for Jordan Taylor and the Corvette team in the GTE Am class, Townsend Bell and Bill Sweedler earned their third straight Le Mans podium result with a third-place run in the No. 62 WeatherTech Ferrari 488 GTE fielded by Scuderia Corsa that they shared with full-time IMSA WeatherTech Championship racer Cooper MacNeil. Bell and Sweedler won the GTE Am class last year, and finished third in 2015. Bell held the class lead early on and the car was a fixture in the GTE Am top five throughout.

For MacNeil, it was his second trip to the podium in 2017, following a WeatherTech Championship GT Daytona (GTD) class win in the BUBBA burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach alongside co-driver Gunnar Jeannette in the No. 50 WeatherTech Mercedes-AMG GT3.

“We ran a really clean race,” MacNeil said. “We had a couple of minor issues all race. I didn’t put a wheel wrong all race and that is how you have to run here at Le Mans. We gave it all we had. We ran to plan, did the stops and driver changes and ran our race. We kept it clean and the great work from the Scuderia Corsa and Kessel guys got us up on the podium. The WeatherTech Racing Ferrari ran great the entire 24 hours.”

Next up for the WeatherTech Championship is the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen on Sunday, July 2. It marks the halfway point in the 12-race WeatherTech Championship season, and also represents the third round of four in the Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup.